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VOLUME XXVII.— No. 3. 
NEW YORK, MARCH, 1868. 
NEW SERIES— No. 254. 
GROUP OP CASHMER 
Our artist presents us a picturesque group of 
these silky-haired claimants for public favor, 
exhibiting at once their fleeces ami their pro- 
pensities. Rocks that goats will not climb, 
foliage that they will not eat, bark that they will 
not gnaw, are things hard to find. Still, these 
propensities to overstep bounds, and do what 
we would rather they would not, may all be 
controlled, and their silky fleeces made avail- 
able to the comfort and pleasure of man. We 
have been much interested in examining sam- 
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OR ANGORA GOATS. 
pies of the fleece of different pure-blooded and 
grade animals of this breed, if so it may be call- 
ed, as well as the animals themselves, and are 
convinced from the diversity of form in the ani- 
mals, and of fineness of the wool or hair, that 
there is in the stock great capacity for improve- 
ment. These goats impress their character- 
istics with great certainty and power upon their 
offspring, when crossed with common goats. 
The fleece consists of the long, often very fine, 
silky, hair, and beneath it, very close, fine wool, 
Drawn and Engraved/or the American Agriculturist. 
which coats the animal in the winter season, 
and affords a most efficient protection from the 
cold. By careful breeding, doubtless cither of 
these kinds of fleece may be increased in quan- 
tity. The tine Cashmere shawls are made from 
the soft, fine wool ; and though experiments in 
introducing the fine-haired goats of Cashmere 
and Thibet into Southern India, to produce this 
fine fleece, have failed, yet the Cashmeres in- 
troduced into this country, and their descend- 
ants, are said not to deteriorate in this respect. 
